On Sun, 12 Apr 1998 21:40:31 -0500 (CDT),
"David A. Gatwood" <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu> wrote:
> 
> So how exactly do they get away with distributing the Mach Kernel,
> precompiled, with that in there?  It can definitely read from HFS
> partitions, since the pre-DR3 installer boots off of an HFS partition
> (i.e. the mach_servers, bootstrap.conf... stuff that'd normally be on
> the MkLinux partition is on an HFS partition for the installer).

I think you should ask OSF about that (your inquiry may trigger a
panicky run for their attornies, haha).

Seriously, though, they could put an hfs lkm in the miniroot, and load
it during the boot before installation, couldn't they?

Ken